You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?